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The Septuagint is often misunderstood or completely ignored in New Testament studies. In The Use of the Septuagint in New Testament Research, R. Timothy McLay makes a sustained argument for the influence of the Greek Jewish Scriptures on the New Testament and offers basic principles for bridging the research gap between these two critical texts. McLay explains the use of the Septuagint in the...

How then do we account for the author’s choice of beginning the quotation with After this I will return? The words do not stem from either Amos 9 or Jeremiah 12. It is probable that μετὰ ταῦτα After this is merely a matter of the author’s style because the same combination is found in Acts 7:7; 13:20; 18:1. The difficulty with this suggestion, however, is that none of these other passages are quotations. The verb ἀναστρέψω may be the result of an unintentional error on the part of the author
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